All The Best Computers Boot To… Python?
No comments by: Jenny List September 11, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Among all the machines of the 8-bit home computer era which booted straight to a BASIC prompt, there were a very few that went their own way with another language. The Jupiter Ace springs immediately to mind, a diminutive Z80-based machine similar to Sinclair’s ZX81, which booted to FORTH. The Ace wasn’t a commercial success, but what would have happened had it booted to a more accessible language?
- ▪No comments by: Jenny List September 11, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Among all the machines of the 8-bit home computer era which booted straight to a BASIC prompt, there were a very few that went their own way with another language.
- ▪The Jupiter Ace springs immediately to mind, a diminutive Z80-based machine similar to Sinclair’s ZX81, which booted to FORTH.
- ▪The Ace wasn’t a commercial success, but what would have happened had it booted to a more accessible language?
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All The Best Computers Boot To… Python? No comments by: Jenny List September 11, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Among all the machines of the 8-bit home computer era which booted straight to a BASIC prompt, there were a very few that went their own way with another language. The Jupiter Ace springs immediately to mind, a diminutive Z80-based machine similar to Sinclair’s ZX81, which booted to FORTH. The Ace wasn’t a commercial success, but what would have happened had it booted to a more accessible language? It’s a question [jordanhubbard] appears to be trying to answer, with an OS that boots to a Python interpreter.. The OS is Python, and everything on top of it uses the interpreter. Better still, it has a GUI mode.
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